Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:27:47 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Jelte Fennema-Nio <postgres@jeltef.nl>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Heads Up: cirrus-ci is shutting down June 1st
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On Fri, Apr 10, 2026 at 01:31:38PM +0200, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2026 at 22:55, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > I'd be interested in feedback about how high folks value different aspects:
> 
> My thoughts below.
> 
> > 1) CI software can be self hosted
> >
> >    E.g. to prevent at least the cfbot case from being unpredictably abandoned
> >    again.
> 
> Low, I personally don't want to manage self hosting it. Self-hosted
> software can just as easily be abandoned. i.e. I'd expect GitHub
> Actions to outlive underfunded open source CI software.

Uh, I actually think the opposite.  while proprietary software doesn't
disappear, it seems to become obsolete (underfunded development) or
prohibitively expensive sooner than open source.  The dataase industry
has certainly shown that in the past 30 years.  Also, four months ago
Github wanted to charge for self-hosted actions, which supports
"prohibitively expensive":

	https://www.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/1po8hj5/github_actions_introducing_a_perminute_fee_for/

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